A Fashion Designer's Roman Retreat

Fashion designer Giambattista Valli in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori Museum in Rome; the statue fragments are of Constantine the Great.

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Valli enlisted architect Luigi Scialanga to transform his Rome pied-à-terre into a loftlike space; the steel-and-wood staircase was designed by Francesco Antilici, the leather-and-chrome table is by Willy Rizzo, and the paper lamp is a first-edition Isamu Noguchi.

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Artwork by Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol in the living room mixes with an 18th-century Rajasthani settee, a collection of African and Indonesian stools and drums, and 1950s Danish cocktail tables.

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Sake cups, an elephant statue from Jaipur, and an antique Japanese bonsai-tree sculpture in the Carrara-marble-clad bathroom.

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Flanking the living room fireplace are a 1950s Texan horn chair and a Noguchi lamp; the marble sink is late 18th century.

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